Category: guest post

  • A Year Without Summer, a Guest Post from Ann Hawthorne

    A Year Without Summer, a Guest Post from Ann Hawthorne

    Imagine a year without summer – and one haunted by apocalyptic portents, at that. It sounds nightmarish – and yet that was exactly the kind of year Jane Austen had lived through in 1816, not long before her own departure from the world. So, what caused it? On the 10th of April 1815, Mount Tambora…

  • Autumn in the Regency Era, a Post from Ann Hawthorne

    Autumn in the Regency Era, a Post from Ann Hawthorne

    Now that autumn is upon us, we are all awakening to the delights of crispy fallen leaves and misty mellow mornings. However, for Jane Austen’s contemporaries, especially those living in the country, the changing of the seasons would have meant far more than that. Ash trees, which were considered a great adornment of any country…

  • The Real Mary Crawford, a Guest Post from Ann Hawthorne

    The Real Mary Crawford, a Guest Post from Ann Hawthorne

    Eliza de Feullide, nee Hancock, was born in Calcutta, India, in the year 1761. Her mother Philadelphia had been George Austen’s older sister, and thus Jane Austen’s aunt.  One can say Eliza had been raising eyebrows in polite society since her birth, because that was when the rumours of her illegitimacy started. There were people…